Contributed by Jim McCarthy, Executive Director, MDTAP Here in Maryland, I’ve found myself recently thinking about access to technology and information for state workers as the state moves to a new IT platform. Maryland’s Division of Information Technology, DoIT, is leading a move of state agencies to Google Apps. A recent meet up of state agencies and […]
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Contributed by Jim McCarthy, Executive Director, MDTAP Recently, MDTAP received our long awaited VarioUltra 20 cell refreshable braille display among the newest additions to our demonstration and loan library. I promptly took control of it to learn how it works so I’ll share some thoughts about it now. The Vario Ultra comes in 20 and […]
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Stands I Have Known—Revisited Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP As hinted in the last post, I finally got my hands on the Fopydo stand. It set me back a whole $15 direct from the manufacturer. There may be less expensive stands available, but let’s call this the low end of the scanning […]
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Because the teaching methods used in math classes tend to be highly visual, many blind and visually impaired students have trouble grasping math concepts and keeping up with assignments. However, math can be taught using hands-on methods that benefit all students. Jim Franklin, an inclusion elementary special education teacher at Elm Street Elementary School in […]
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Document Scanning, The Missing Link Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP How many articles have we posted about scanning printed documents using OCR software? We don’t know either, but you could always try using the “Search” feature on the blog. Anyway, it is not insignificant. Often, I write about a new piece of […]
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Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP I recently came across this article, 9 advances helping visually-impaired people navigate cities, in which many technologies discussed on our blog or posted on our news feeds are explored. Navigation apps and related tools have always been a bit of a hobby to me, thus making this […]
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